Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat of Hawaii, is no conservative. But she is an intelligent member of the center left who has the guts to display common sense. That is getting her in hot water with fellow Democrats. That hot water turned into a scalding flood over the weekend when Gabbard dared to challenge Democrats on gender and abortion.

FNC: “Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard hit back at critics of legislation she’s introduced to prevent transgender women from competing in female sports and for the care of infant survivors of late-term abortion, calling them ‘hypocrites.’

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A number of leftists called Gabbard, who leaves Congress this month, ‘transphobic’ and a “right wing s—t heel” on Twitter, among other invectives. “I welcome real criticism and debate,” Gabbard told The New York Post Saturday. “But my so-called critics don’t want to debate the issues. They just want to engage in smears and slurs and name-calling and innuendo…Identity politics is having an incredibly destructive effect on our country rather than recognizing what connects all Americans. It’s being done to help people and parties get in power and stay in power by pitting individual Americans against each other.” Wow. That’s excellent stuff.

Gabbard and Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-OK, introduced a bipartisan bill to Congress Thursday that would “protect women’s sports” based on biological sex. Title IX protects students from discrimination based on gender in educational programs or activities that receive federal funding like school sports programs.

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Gabbard said the legislation “protects the rights of biological females competing in sports against having to compete against biological men who identify as female. It’s not a level playing field. And it’s mind-boggling how quickly people attack those whose positions are based on science and common sense…The real reason why so many people are upset by my Title IX legislation is that it recognizes the biological distinction between men and women…It’s the height of hypocrisy for someone who claims to be an advocate for women’s rights to also simultaneously to deny the biological existence of women. How can someone claim to be a champion of women while denying our very existence?” Also, first rate.

Gabbard also is sponsoring a bill mandating care for babies who survive abortions. Jill Filipovic, a Bolshevik writer wrote on Twitter that it was a “redundant” bill that “claims to protect infants in the infinitesimally rare cases they are born after attempted abortions. … but in fact just criminalizes doctors, vilifies women, and fear-mongers about abortion.” No gender reality and a hatred of infants, the normal Democrat response.